These ones were trickier to assemble, with separate arms and weapons which didn't fit together well. Sticking them together with super glue and then sprinkling on baking soda before the glue cured seemed to do the trick.
These first 2 photos are the 6 dwarves I just finished painting.
And the whole crew/squad, including 8 others I painted some time ago.
Feel your pain on putting them together Fitz, I remember some of the old GW metal kits been a nightmare to put together, however your models look very good now all painted up.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yeah, some minis go together much more smoothly, some not so much. And once I got them finally assembled and painted they ended up looking fine.
DeleteThey look great! I like the visors!
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Thanks!
DeleteMy thinking on the visors is some sort of metallic glass and/or reflective surface like mirrored sunglasses.
These are fantastic! So fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks! See, not as colorful as yours. ha ha
DeleteI went for a more subdued uniform green. :)
Totally works though! I love the green!
DeleteI admit, I've always been attracted to bright multi-coloured things - always loved landsknechts, 40K Harlequins... now Noise Marines and Necromunda gangs (especially Clan Escher)... and, yeah, multi-coloured vibrancy is even working it's way into my small group space dwarves... doesn't mean I can't still appreciate "subdued" or "uniform"!
I think part of the reason I'm doing different colours on my Dwarves is that there is no uniformity in their equipment... I find painting things that are physically different the same colour looks weird. If they'd been more uniform - in equipment - I very likely would have painted them in like colours as if they WERE in a uniform!
DeleteNo criticism intended either way. Both approaches are valid. Even when I go more colorful I tend to keep it uniform across a batch of figures. Part of that for me is it makes color decisions easier. I find I can get bogged down when I have too many color options. One of the few cases where I did got for more varied and bright colors was some Foundry orcs in landsknechts/Renaissance style gear; for those I tried to make them garish with mismatched colors.
DeleteHA! Oh, I get bogged down too! (Which is why MY dwarves will likely take MONTHS more to finish up!).
DeleteWhen I was doing large groups of vikings (and trying to do them all in a variety of colours), I would do stuff like do them in groups of 14 and then I would pick out 7 colours, and the do two tunics, two trousers and two cloaks (if they had them) in a colour, then do the next colour... and HOPEFULLY they all ended up with a different colour combination for their tunic, trousers, and cloaks!
It's funny, I've just painted a unit of Roman auxiliary infantry and while doing it I thought "well this is easy for some reason " I realised I hadn't painted a uniform for years!
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